Re: VW beetle logo
"Florian Rehnisch" <t...@florianrehnisch.de> wrote in message news:3B3...@florianrehnisch.de... > Hi, > > Bill Taylor <mat...@math.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > > I once heard, long ago, that this was carefully designed to make it appear > > as a swastika when travelling at about 30 mph. Anyone else heard that one? > > Didn't heard so, but that may be possible, since the first 'Volkswagen' > was designed in the 30s in Germany, the so called 'Third Reich'. I think > the capitals in the logo were taken because it was a 'Volks(people's)- > Wagen(car)', i.e. a car for the common man. > > OBascii: > o > {|} > " a beetle > the model T of Germany ? F irst O n _ _ R ace -.`|_|\_ D ay O`---'o` --lgbeard
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